THE WAR.
MR. BALFOUR ON THE PEACE QUESTION:
MASTERLY AND DIGNIFIED DESPATCH.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19TH, 1817.
ALLIED ACTIVITY ON WESTERN FRONT.
RUSSIAN SUCCESSES IN ROUMANIA.
GREECE ACCEPTS ALLIES' DEMANDS.
Franco-Helgian Front.
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BRITISH FRONT.
WHOLE OBJECTIVES GAIN
GAINED
LONDON, January 18th.
ROUMANIA'S- KING.
CONFIDENT OF VICTORY.
Jassy's, January 18th. --
In an New Year Order to the Army, dated 16th inst., the King of Roumania says their present trials had not diminished their valour, justifying con fidence in future victory. The latest reports from the front showed that the enemy's offensive had greatly slackened, and his attacks were razer and weaker.
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a communiqué, says: This morning, after a heavy bombardment, we occupied a line of posts to the north of Beaumont-sur- Anere, our whole objectives being gained, on a frontage of 600 yards. We had few casualties Our observation in this aren has considerably improved and our artil. lery burrage in the afternoon broke up
LONDON, January 17th. in counter-attack with heavy loss to the
Mr. E. Ward Price, the war corrc- enemy. We are consolidating the posi-spondent, writing from Salonika, says tion.
We carried out, in the neighbourhood of Lens, important raids with complete
BUVOUIS,
German positions to the south of Cita and Calonne And to the west of Lens were entered late on Tuesday night under
cover of a heavy bombardment.
We reached the enemy's support line and destroyed dug-outs, inflicting many casualties Our losses were small.
This morning we successfully carried out a daylight raid to the north-east of Cite and Calonno and entered trenches- an a front of 100 yards to a depth of 300 yards, to the enemy's second line. Heavy Josses were inflicted. All the dug-outs were completely wrecked, and 100 pri- were taken, Our artillery and machine guns co-operated with the in fantry very effectively. Our casualties were slight.
SONICTH
VIOLENT ARTILLERY BATTLE. GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT.
LONDON, January 17th.
·A German official report states that tho Artillery battle has increased in violence at several points on the west front.
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USUAL
PARIS, January 17th. A communiqué says:There has been the usual artillerying and trench or- duasing along the whole front. ENEMY LINES PENETRATED.
Panus, January 17th.
A communiqué says We repulsed small enemy attacks east of Clery, ami south of Biaches and Les Eparges.
Our patrole penetrated enemy lines at several points on the heights of the Mouse and in the forest of Apremont,
The Balkans.
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GERMAN CLAIMS AND ADMISSIONS. FIGHTING IN THE CARPATHIANS,
LONDON, January 17th. A Gerinan official report states:-The Russo-Roumanians iercely continued their attacks in the East Carpathians with heavy maases of men against the positions on the heights which we recent fy anatched from them. They succeeded in gaining & footing on one summit, but were repulsed elsewhere.
Advanced Turkish posts near Vadeni were withdrawn before 'superior forces.
The report also states that, during an unspecified period 18 German aeroplanes were lost în air-fights compared with 60 Allied aeroplanes, of which 22 were captured,
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GREEK SITUATION.
HOSTILITIES IMMINENT.
imminent.
that the Greek troops to the northward are violating the neutral zone, and hostilities are apparently The reported arrival of General via Falkenhayn seemed to indicate that the Greco-German plaus of combined action have matured,
BRITISH MINISTER VISITS PREMIER,
Arness, January 17th.
Sir Francis Elliot, British Minister, visited the Premier at Athens on Mon- day with respect to the reservations in the Greek reply to the Allies ultimatum.
There are indications that diplomats may return to Athens shortly, but this will depend on the prompt fulfilment of the ultimatum.
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DEMANDS,
LONDON, January 17th. Reuter learns that Sir Francis Eliot, who has returned to his post, has tele- graphed definitely announcing the entire acceptance of the Allies' demands.
GERMAN RAIDER AT LARGE.
MANY VESSELS SUNK,
Lowbox, January 17th. The Admiralty announces that infor- mation. 'rowiyed from Pernambuco, Brazil, confirms the assumption that the
following ships have been sunk by a
German raider:-
BRITISH. Dramatist, Rudnorshire, Minich, Netherby Hall, Mount Temple, King George, Voltaire and Georgic.
FRENCH-Vanter and Asnieres, The Japanese steamer Hudson Mora arrived at Pernambuco on January 15th with the masters, and, 237 of the crews of some of the lost vessels, which were sunk between, December 12th and January
12th.
It is also announced that the Nr. Theodore has been captured and a prize crew put on board, while the Farrowdale was captured and sent away with 400 men from sunken vessels. There is no further nows as to their whereabouts,
General.
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{TUMOURN 'RKUTMN's AGMOR.]
ANOTHER BRITISH LOAN IN AMERICA.
LONDON, January 17th. A telegram from New York says that it is reported that a new British loan of £60,000,000 is imminent.
AMERICAN SYMPATHY WITH BELGIUM.
NEW YORK, January 17th. Various religions bodies are petition ing President Wilson to fit Washington's birthday, February 22nd, as a day of humiliation and national protest against the Belgian deportations.
SUBMARINE “FRIGHTFUL-
NESS."
PAN-GERMAN AGITATION FOR
MORE.
LONDON, January 17th.
SWISS AND SCANDINAVIAN PEACE NOTES.
THE ALLIES' REPLY.
PARIS, January 17th. The Allies have replied to the Swiss
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MR. BALFOUR AND PEACE,
THE THREE CONDITIONS.
LONDON, January 17th, A despatch by Mr. Balfour, supple mentary to the Allies' aeply to President au Scandinavian Peace Notes backing Wilson, was handed yesterday to the up President Wilson's Peace Note, and declare their inability to meet their wish, for the reasons contained in the reply despatched to President Wilson.
American Government. It constitutes n masterly presentation of the Allier' case for the enlightenment of neutrals.
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR.
CHANGE AT LONDON EMBASSY.
PETROGRAD, January 18th.
It says that it gathers, from President Wilson's Note, that 'President Wilson, while intensely desiring a speedy and lasting peace, does not for the present concern himself with the terms on which
It is understood that M. S. D. Sazonoft, this should be arranged. Britain entirely ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, will suc.. shares the President's ideals, but feels seed Court Benckendorff at the London strongly that the durability of peace Embassy. mast largely depend on its character. The despatch affirms that the changes on the map of Europe, outlined in the Allies' Note, would greatly mitigate the unjust treatment of nationalities, which was one of the main causes of the war,
Regarding the proposal to expel the Turks from Europe, it admits that this is a complete revoren of traditional policy, but says circumstances havé com- Fletely changed, and the creation of a reformed Turkey is now impossible. The Young Turks, under German influence, | were at least as barbarous as, and more Laggressivo "than, Abdul Hamid. The interests of posice and the claims of nationality alike require that Turkish rule over alien races shall, if possible, be brought to an end; and it may be hoped that the expulsion of Turkey from Europe will contribute as much to peace as any of the other territorial changes indicated in the Allies' Note. These torri torial arrangements, however, though they may diminish the occasions for war, will not provide sufficient security for the future.
After pointing out that the war had proved treaties to be useless to restrain A telegram from Rotterdam states that the Central Powers from agression, the the pan-German agitation for submarino espatch declares that their methods of "frightfulness," is becoming more in-calculated brutality are designed not tensified.
A conference of the Centre Deputics at
Britain was defeated, and the last were of our Colonies is returned."
SWEDEN AND THE WAR. SPECIAL PREPAREDNESS
NECESSARY.
merely to crush their opponents but to intimidate noutrals, Belgium was not
which
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TRAIN COLLISION IN ROUMANIA.
LONDON, January 17th.
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OBITUARIES.
ADMIRAL DEWEY.
LONDON, January 17th, The death is announced of Admiral George Dewey.
Deceased, who was born at Montpelier, Victoria, in 1897, entered the United States Navy in 1858, and he was made Admiral in 1809. He served on the Mississippi River in Farragut's squadron in 1861-63, and was in command of the Asiatic equadron in 1898, when he destroyed the Spanish Fleet in Manila Bay, on May 1st.]
MR. WILIAM DE MORGAN.
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LONDON, January 17th. The death has taken place of Mr. William Frend De Morgan, the novelist.
Deceased was born in 1839. He was a student at the Royal Academy in 1959, having adopted art as a profession, In the years following 1864 he was chiefly siz engaged in stained-glass work, and yenry later turned his attention to ceramic work, when his experiments in lustre, at that time, not much known in England, attracted some attention among artists. In 1995, he commenced as a writer of fiction.]
PREBENDARY MOSS.
LONDON, January 17th, The death is announced of the Roy.
The Times reports that at Nouirea, H. W. Moss, Prebendary of Hereford Bear Jassy, an overcrowded train, bear-since 1987. ing 2,000 passengers, was derailed in a collision with a train from Headquarters. The bodies of women and children and soldiers strewed the line.. The French Military Attacho was injured,
I AM THE MAN.
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PARIS, January 17th.. The newspapers are of the opinion to Dr. You that the Kaiser's letter Bethmann Hollweg, mentioned yester day, was written after the Allies had replied to the German peace offer, and was intended to counteract the disastrous effect produced on neutrals by the out burst of fury in the Emperor's latest proclamation.
PRUSSIAN BOASTING.
AT OPENING OF DIET.
AMSTERDAM, January 17th. The Prussian Dict has re-opened. The President hoped that the New Year would bring peace. He added:- "Our great leaders and glorious troops, brave submarines, and, not least, our will soon answer the exorbitant and in- pertinent demands of the Entente."
ENTIRE ACCEPTANCE OF ALLIED Cologne acclaimed a speech demanding merely a victim, but was an example. Neu Germany to sharpen submarining tilltals were intended to note the outrages Caccompanied its conquest, the reign
In submitting the Budget, the Finance of terror which followed its occupation, Minister said that be had not abandoned the deportation of its population, and the hope that this would be the last War the erael oppression of the remainder, Budget, although our enemies have and in case nations protected by the declared their intention to destroy Ger- British or their own fleets from the Germany." He admitted that the blockade STOCKHOLM, January 17th. man arming should suppose themselver was pressing heavily and that many were At the opening of the Biksdag, the safe from German methods, German sub-suffering severely, but nobody speech from the throne emphasised that marines have assiduously imitated the the special preparedness of the land and German army's harburism. If, therefore, sca forces must be maintained. Extra- the Central Powers succeed, they will owe ordinary measures had been necessitated their success to terrorism on land and by the increas of war operations in so. Thus, any attempt to improve the
FRENCH OPINION.
PARIS, January 17th. The Matin is of opinion that within a fortnight the Royalist Army in Grecce will no longer be a source of anxiety to the Allies,
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IN ROUMANIA.
RUSSIAN SUCCESS-VADENI
CAPTURED.
LONDON, January 17th.
A wireless Russian official message Bays:The enemy attacked the Roumn- niana south-west of Prales. Our counter-
attack drove him back,
A night-attack of ours drove out the A counter- Germans from Gerleschi. attack cofipelled us to withdraw.
We stormed and captured Vadeni. A dense counter-attack failed.
Russian Front.
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GERMAN CLAIM.
PETROGRAF, January 17th.
Swedish territorial waters,
The Budget includes 26,000,000 for the Army, £2,000,000 for the Navy, and £2,250,000 to relieve the dearness of living.
RAID
ON THE **FIELD."
LONDON, January 17th. The Times understands that the Police and Military raided the Field newspaper office on Monday with a warrant under the Defence of the Realm Act. The rea-
son is not given,
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The Field states that the official visit was confined to the editor's private room, and that it had no reference to the Field or to any other publications or
A German communiqué says:-Fight- | affairs of the Company, ing has developed south of Smorgon. Naval Activities.
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SINKINGS.
BRITAINS NEW WAR LOAN.
LARGE APPLICATIONS. ››
LONDON, January 17th, The City Corporation is subscribing two millions sterling to the War Loan.
The Phoenix and Royal Insurance Companies are each applying for three and millions sterling worth of the now War Norma Loan.
LONDON, January 17th. The following sinkings are announced:
-Brookwood (British), Shelma Grafjell (Norwegian), and (Swedish). JAPANESE NAVAL DISASTER,
TOKYO, January 17th.
It is now estimated that 200 lives were lost in the explosion on the battle cruiser Tukubu, which sank in twenty minutes. The cause of the disaster is unknown.
The Standard Life Assurance Company is applying for three millions worth of the War Loan.
code of International Law would be use
less, since only the criminals who broke the rules would benefit thereby, while
tluse adhering would suffer,
Therefore the people of Britain, while fally sharing President Wilson's desire for peace, do not believe that pence would Jurable if not based on the Allies' victory. The three conditions of a dur-
able peace are:--
.{1).~The removal, as far as possible, of the existing causes of International
unrest.
(2). That the aggressive aims and unscrupulous methods of the Central Powers should fall into disrepute among their own peoples,
(3)-Behind International Law and all treaty arrangements for preventing or limiting hostilities some form of International sanction should be de- vised which will give pause to the bardiest aggressor.
[Deceased was born at Lincoln on June 23rd, 1941. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St. John's College, Cambridge, being Porson Prizeman in 1861, 1862 and 1863, Craven University Scholar 1862, Browne's Medalist 1863. He was repeated- ly elected a umber of the Committee of the Headmaster's Conference, of which ho wo Chairman from 1899 to 1802; was a selected speaker at the Church Congress in 1875 and 1996; Select Preacher befor tite University of Cambridgy, 1905; and Head- master of Shrewsbury School from 1806 to 1908.]
WAR NEWS.
BRITAIN'S NAVAL POLICY.
Lord Beresford, addressing a big meet-
ing in London on December 18t, said it had been called to express dissatisfaction with Britain's naval policy. The Navy was never botter manned, but it was fettered by Downing Street. The Govern ment had taken no stops to grapple with the submarine menace.
They ought to send 1,000 airships to Zeebrugge to smash p that hornets' nést. The recent changer at the Admiralty would make no difference. The Germans were now going to send submarines to the Pacific and other British Dade routes, It was a crime to allow merchantmen to. go to sex unarmed, They ought to have acro planes over Zeebrugge day and night, with Instructions to pulverse the place, A resolution was carried demanding & miore effective blockade of Germany and more efficient steps for dealing with the submarine menace
HOW THINGS ARE DONE,
There are generally three stages bofore anything geta dane since the war com menced (says the Outlook.) First, the Conservative papers advocate it, and Radical contemporaries coine round to then perhaps twelve months later their the same way of thinking, Finally, after a shorter delay, the Government decides. that there may be something in the idea. directed attention to the prodigal waste Considerably more than a year ago we of brain-power, which might be employed, much of it voluntarily, for the good of was the country. During the present week of starving. The enemy was greatly mis-Braco the Daily Chronicle propounds the query: Is there any Government takon if he believed he could conquer machinery for co-ordinating offers of Germany by the blockade. He warned service to the State!" Of course there is not, as the Daily Chronicle shows by Germans that they must face difficult cases of a retired partner in a grent months, immensely heavy fighting, and shipping firm being set to copy foe- ments, of a pensiones Civil servant of the first class being sent into a munition business man, conversant works, and of many sacrifices of blood and treasure, but all were convinced of victory, with all the languages of Europe, boing directed to the nearest Labour Exchange. Germany, on the other hand, had uses for all her brain power allocated in the early days of the war,
"Our true God will be with us if we
only do our duty.”
AN INDIAN CONTROVERSY.
LONDON, January 17th. The Indiaman publishes a long article on the Travancore monazite controversy, exonerating Holland.
WAR MATERIAL.
GERMANY'S "NEW AND GIGANTIC" ATTEMPT.
LONDON, January 17th.
the Mr. Kellaway, Secretary to Ministry of Munitions, states that Ger many is striving to increase her war material in an unprecedented manner. If we succeeded--as we would succeed in overcoming Germany's effort, it would be due to our half million women muni tion workers,
These difficulties may be difficult to fulfil, but the Allies believe them to be in general harmony with President Wilson's ideals, and are confident that none of them can be satisfied, even im-
He emphasised that a much greater perfectly, unless peace's secured on the effort was necessary to beat Germany's general lines indicated, so far as Europe
The latent War Office joke is a story of
is concerned, in the Allice' Note. Henes now and gigantic attempt to overtake the reason that Britain had made, was our production of war materia!. making, and was prepared to make sacri- sterlingfices in blood and treasure unparalleled in ite history, and watch it bears because it firmly believes that on the success of the Allies depends the prospects of peaceful my-lization, and those international re forms which the best thinkers of the New World as well as of the Old, dare to hope may follow the cessation of the present calamities.
LONDON, January 18th. The London County Council have sub scribed seven millions sterling to the War Loan,
KAISER'S THANKS TO
HINDENBURG.
According to an official, telegram front Berfin, the Kaiser has conferred on Marshal von Hindenburg the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, with the follow- ing autograph letter:
My dear Field-Marshal,-The Rou- manian campaign, which with God's assistance has already led to such bril- liant successes, will be valued in the history of war of all times as a bright example of the strategic art. Again you have conducted great operations with raro prudence in your splendid arrange- ments, with the greatest energy in carry- ing them out, and you proposed to mo with foreseeing thoughtfulness measures which directed the way to the separately. marching columns for a united blow.
To you and your well-tried assistants of the General Staff the thanks of the Fatherland are again dus. With proud joy, and satisfaction it learned the vic torious news, and with sure certainty and full confidence in such leaders it looks into the future. But I desire to give especial expression to my deepest thanks by conferring on you, as the first of my generals, the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross,
"Your grateful and always very affec tionate King,
WILHELM."
SHIPPING NEWS,
The Compagnie Francise de Navigation
a lady clerk asked to verify the initiale des Chargeurs Réunis, of Paris, had made of a captain in the Black Watch. She a net profit of 1.19,020,000 during the was very long about it and finally was financial year ended June 30th and has found reading the Indian Army List. declared a dividend of £75 per share as "I thought she said "all coloured against 1.35 per share for the previous troops were in the Indian army,”
year.